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* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	Hyl*	Will find all uses of "Hyl . . ." anywhere in a record: e.g., Hylarana, Hyla, Hylidae, Hylinae, Hylaedactyla.
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Strings of words without quotation marks	Lithobates pipiens	Interprets this as "Lithobates OR pipiens" so will find the union of all records that contain either "Lithobates" or "pipiens": e.g., Lithobates omiltemanus, Hylorana pipiens
Strings of word with quotation marks	"Lithobates pipiens"	Interprets this as "Lithobates AND pipiens" so will return all records that have the character string "Lithobates pipiens" anywhere within a record: e.g., all members of the Lithobates pipiens complex.
AND statement. Means that the results of the search must include both words held together by an AND	Lithobates AND pipiens	Same as "Lithobates pipiens"
OR statement. Means that the results of the search will all records that have either of the terms held together by an OR	Lithobates OR "Costa Rica"	Recovers all records that contain the word "Lithobates" or "Costa Rica": 402 records inasmuch as this will include all records for the entire amphibian fauna of Costa Rica
Combining Boolean operators within the Basic Search box (AND, OR, NOT, quotation marks)	Lithobates AND "Costa Rica" NOT forreri	Recovers only records that contain the word Lithobates AND "Costa Rica", but excludes any record that contains the word "forreri" in any part of the record: 9 records
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Arthroleptis xenochirus Boulenger, 1905

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Arthroleptidae > Subfamily: Arthroleptinae > Genus: Arthroleptis > Species: Arthroleptis xenochirus

Arthroleptis xenochirus Boulenger, 1905, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 16: 108. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.30.54 (formerly 1904.5.2.101) according to Laurent, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 20. Type locality: "Marimba", Angola.

Schoutedenella globosa De Witte, 1921, Rev. Zool. Afr., 9: 18. Types: MRAC (8 specimens), by original designation. Type locality: "Lofoi (Katanga)", southeastern Dem. Rep. Congo. Synonymy by Poynton and Broadley, 1985, Ann. Natal Mus., 26: 535–536.

Arthroleptis (Arthroleptulus) xenochirus — Laurent, 1941 "1940", Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 34: 87.

Schoutedenella globosa — Laurent, 1941 "1940", Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 34: 89.

Schoutedenella xenochira — Laurent, 1954, Ann. Mus. R. Congo Belge, Tervuren, Ser. Quarto, Sci. Zool., 1: 36.

Schoutedenella globosa globosa — Laurent, 1954, Ann. Mus. R. Congo Belge, Tervuren, Ser. Quarto, Sci. Zool., 1: 35.

Schoutedenella globosa pasteelsi Laurent, 1954, Ann. Mus. R. Congo Belge, Tervuren, Ser. Quarto, Sci. Zool., 1: 35. Holotype: MRAC unnumbered, according to the original publication. Type locality: "Kipoyo, Alt. 700 m., Terr. de Fizi, Kivu" Dem. Rep. Congo.

Schoutedenella xenochirus — Laurent, 1954, Publ. Cult. Companhia Diamantes Angola, 23: 35–84.

Arthroleptis globosa globosa — Laurent, 1957, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 56: 274–275, by implication; Gorham, 1974, Checklist World Amph.: 129.

Arthroleptis globosa pasteelsi — Laurent, 1957, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 56: 274–275, by implication; Gorham, 1974, Checklist World Amph.: 129.

Arthroleptis xenochirus — Laurent, 1957, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 56: 274–275, by implication; Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 336.

Arthroleptis globosa — Schmidt and Inger, 1959, Explor. Parc Natl. Upemba, Miss. G.F. de Witte, 56: 126.

English Names

Marimba Screeching Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 37).

Plain Squeaker (Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 52; Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 60).

Distribution

Open grassland into evergreen montane forest at 1600–2280 m elevation in central to norteastern and northwestern Angola, northern Malawi, and southeastern Dem. Rep. Congo, into adjacent northern Zambia and extreme southern Tanzania.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Angola, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia

Comment

Laurent, 1964, Publ. Cult. Companhia Diamantes Angola, 67: 146, noted that this form is possibly a subspecies of Arthroleptis globosa. J. C. Poynton In Laurent, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 20, noted that material assigned to Arthroleptis xenodactyloides nyikae by Poynton, 1964, Senckenb. Biol., 45: 213, should be assigned to this species. Poynton and Broadley, 1985, Ann. Natal Mus., 26: 540–542, discussed allocation of specimens of previous authors (including some mistakenly referred to Arthroleptis xenodactylus) and synonymized Schoutedenella globosa De Witte, 1921 with this species. Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 52, and Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 60–61, provided brief accounts for this species. Frétey, 2008, Alytes, 25: 99–172, summarized the literature. Mercurio, 2011, Amph. Malawi: 86–77, provided an account for Malawi. Conradie, Keates, Verburgt, Baptista, and Harvey, 2023, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 17: 24–25, provided an account and dot map of the species in Angola. Ceríaco, Marques, and Bandeira, 2016, Anf. Rept. Parque Nac. Cangandala: 25, provided a brief account for Cangandala National Park, Angola. Marques, Ceríaco, Blackburn, and Bauer, 2018, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 65 (Suppl. II): 120–121, provided a map and brief account for Angola. See Bittencourt-Silva, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (2: e181): 4, for comments on systematics, morphology, and ecology in western Zambia. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 264–265, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Ernst, Lautenschläger, Branquima, and Hölting, 2020, Zoosyst. Evol., 96: 249, noted the species to occur in Uigé Province of northwestern Angola. Badjedjea, Masudi, Akaibe, and Gvoždík, 2022, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 16 (1: e301): 45, commented on a likely unnamed species (their Arthroleptis sp. aff. xenochirus) from the Kokolopori Bonobo Nature Reserve, Tshuapa Province, Dem. Rep. Congo.

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